Job Description

About the role:

Gowling WLG's affordable housing team sits as part of the wider Housing and Regeneration Team and is one of the UK's leading practices in this area, supporting housing associations and for profit registered providers across the full lifecycle of affordable housing delivery. Our clients include Sanctuary Group, L&G Affordable Housing, BVT and Aspen Retirement.

Our conveyancing specialists handle a high volume of transactions, including shared ownership sales and resales, extra care and retirement schemes, staircasing, lease extensions, enfranchisement, right to buy/right to acquire disposals, land disposals, buy‑backs and auction sales, ensuring smooth, efficient and well‑managed outcomes for our clients.

As a Conveyancing Assistant, you’ll be supporting our Conveyancers in managing volume plot sales and residential property transactions for registered providers. Your responsibilities will include assisting with transactions, maintaining accurate records, and helping ensure a smooth and efficient process for our clients.

About you:

You will work as part of an inclusive, collaborative and supportive team, where everyone contributes to ongoing success and growth. Previous experience in a legal environment is helpful but not essential. We are seeking someone who will remain calm under pressure and manage your workload effectively by prioritising tasks and work closely with colleagues, including as part of wider project teams, and provide support where required.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at meg.astley@gowlingwlg.com

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